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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.


Hanya Yanagihara

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HANYA YANAGIHARA The previous Friday, Andy had come over, and they'd told him, and Andy had stood and hugged them bot...
HANYA YANAGIHARA He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.
HANYA YANAGIHARA But they're your parents," Malcolm said to him once a year or so. "You can't just stop talkin...
HANYA YANAGIHARA We journeyed through ancient China by traveling along the Silk Road on a CD simulation. The girls le...
ELIZABETH DAVIS Looking back where me, myself and I traveled along; helps the decision forward.
CHELSEA R. BLUES Willem had tried to approach the subject through various directions—through stories of friends and...
HANYA YANAGIHARA We see the Silk Road as a symbol of cultural discovery and exchange, and the project uses artistic e...
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KEVIN HALL A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he ...
LEMONY SNICKET I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
ROBERT FROST My phone rang, and although it wasn't a sinister time of night, and although nothing had happened th...
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HANYA YANAGIHARA He has a vision of his life as a sliver of soap, worn and used and smoothed into a slender, blunt-ed...
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HANYA YANAGIHARA But now, he was conscious of his own impatience with what he had begun to see as the sinister pedant...
HANYA YANAGIHARA The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. ...
DOROTHY THOMPSON You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the wo...
WILLIAM HAZLITT You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the wo...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Even when we want a treat, we're finding we can get a decadent taste with whole grains. It used to b...
CYNTHIA HARRIMAN The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS He placed his hand on Willem's arm. 'Willem, don't cry.'

'I'm not going to,' he said. 'I ...
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CODY WRIGHT I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back an...
JIMMY FALLON Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."

The logic in th...
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KALIMBA EDWARDS The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
JILL AND The expensive wine coated my throat with warm notes of fig and vanilla. Mozzarella melted like cream...
MEG DONOHUE We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL It was back and forth, and McDowell is a well-coached team, coached by a legend. It was special. It ...
JEFF PARHAM Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SH...
JOSS WHEDON I add a lot of citrus to my food and I think that flavors it. And, to me, that what makes it healthi...
CAT CORA The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in rain...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN There's a lot of back and forth on the product roadmaps. We go to AMD and say we'd like the followin...
JOHN FOWLER She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We've been going back and forth and I thought all of the concerns were addressed.
HERB KLEIN "I worked for men," my Lord will say, When we meet at the end of the King's highway; "I walked...
ROBERT DAVIES I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and fort...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped ...
CAT CORA My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to b...
JANE PAULEY He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange...
DAVID DUCHOVNY Ingratitude is monstrous, and for the multitude to be ingrateful, were to make a monster of the mult...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Investors) don't want to see this relatively ferocious back and forth between the government and Te...
DAVID LAND But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and ...
JOEY SKAGGS Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
JERRY SEINFELD Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason
JERRY SEINFELD And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY I'd like to see something done about the long putters and belly putters. But I go back and forth...
MATT KUCHAR I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started...
S. J. PERELMAN Naomi at TipsyCake is doing the cake, and it should be amazing."
"Mmm, cake. What kind of cake?...
STACEY BALLIS I find the road less traveled to have a smoother surface.
MARCUS MAYO The stigma of child abuse is still apparent here. (It's) kind of like the road less traveled. Turns ...
CINDY WINSTEAD We sang the song as children of the mystery that we hoped to one day comprehend and now, at last, we...
MISHI MCCOY Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible ...
INA GARTEN Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, a...
BIBLE He wasn't good with this sort of thing - with the back-and-forth dance between man and woman. He was...
COURTNEY MILAN If we needed the roads to be fixed, they said that's the city road, and the city would say that's th...
LEINAALA LOPES If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.
ZENRIN If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.
ZENRIN It was a lot of hauling things back and forth in the sand on the beach. ... The response (to our pro...
CAROL COHEE According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to s...
QUESTLOVE I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
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